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  1. The Rangers will get the last laugh of Wilson misses time in the playoffs form breaking a finger during the fight last night...
  2. Depends on the price and term. He isn't a top pairing D anymore and asking him to play more than 20 minutes a night means he won't be very effective. The last two seasons he visibly wears down a couple months into things. Under $3 million on a 3rd pairing and going up the lineup when needed to cover injuries seems like a reasonable plan... I don't think the idea of him playing for $1 million isn’t too likely (dare to dream). It doesn't hurt to have Juolevi and Rathbone split starts and share a roster spot. They would probably get 50 games each in the season considering either Hughes or Edler on that side is likely to miss some time.
  3. You mean responding to a question you literally posed in a thread that I made is stalking? That contrasts pretty well with the dozen or so times a week you make snarky and objectively false responses to anything I post. As I already said, grow up... go for a walk... go find some joy in your life. It is sad that you are holding some weird grudge on a hockey forum because you made arguments that turned out to be wrong. Maybe if that bothers you so much, don’t post... or just post “in my opinion...” rather than calling out other posters for being dumb for posting something you disagreed with.
  4. You are lying again. Be slightly honourable or truthful at the very least. I clearly said that having a private conversation was “more likely to result in tangible action” than making the public statement... which is absolutely true, because making that public statement would do nothing but cement job security for Parros... which it did. It removed any possibility at all of quietly shuffling things around. I did not say that “I could have handled things privately”.... that is you inventing things in your own head to suit some weird strawman argument you wanted to make because reality showed you to be wrong (yet again). I also linked an article from Seravelli making it clear that the statement from the Rangers “galvanized” support for Parros according to many sources... so it played out exactly like I suggested it would before the fine was handed out. Try to be a grown up, your silly monotonous “gotcha” posts keep the ending out to be nonsense. I predicted how the statement would go down with the league, and it went down exactly like that Bettman pushing back hard.... and Parros not getting fired. None of it has anything to do with whether Wilson should have been suspended or not, just how to effectively approach things.
  5. Exactly as I posted before... the only thing that statement would possibly result in, is ensuring job security for Parros. The story from insiders now say that it played out precisely as I anticipated it would. The peanut gallery making snarky comments continues to be shown to be silly.... it must get tiring for them. Rangers’ expensive statement galvanized support for Parros https://www.tsn.ca/1.1635561.1620328398
  6. Wow... did we make the playoffs overnight while I was sleeping?!! That is amazing!! I mean, it would be truly ridiculous if you were continuing to be snarky because reality showed all your posts on the thread to be entirely misinformed and wrong. As it turns out, the playoffs were out of reach... who could have predicted such a thing?!! My next prediction... an incoming bunch of WADR from you about how just because objective reality shows that I was actually right, it doesn’t really mean I was “really” actually right and how it is just coincidence that you turned out to be wrong (maybe you can shoehorn dZone start % and how Gudbranson is an elite top pairing D in there so you include more of your greatest revisionist history hits). :D
  7. ummm... because we are 6th worst by winning percentage and then Seattle is added in ahead of us as per the expansion agreement? It is listed right on the site showing the column of winning % in order. Math?
  8. What do the Sedins have to do with the league giving the Rangers a fine? Did they make Dolan's approach to this more successful? It is a nonsense connection to try to make as they literally have nothing to do with each other, nor does it have anything to do with what I posted. It is exceedingly silly to demand someone address random unrelated things as a counterpoint to non-existent logic on your part. ..as for how supported my position is. Did Parros get fired? Did they decide to suspend Wilson retroactively? I mean objective reality is that Dolan's tactics didn't work, which was my "take". I know objective reality isn't your strong suit, hence how salty you are about looking silly by insisting that we were actually making the playoffs regardless of the math.
  9. Still stalking me because you are salty about looking foolish about the playoffs being out of reach? Maybe go take a walk and find some joy in your life.
  10. Seems pretty predictable. The way they went about it was really poor in my opinion. Have a fiery interview and call the lack of suspension bull$&!# and that you had made those feelings clear to the league, and that all you care about is the health and safety of your players. Then take your small fine for saying that and move on... It serves the optics purpose of standing up for your players and your private discussions with the league are more likely to result in tangible action (like putting someone else in charge of player safety). If anyone remotely thought that publicly calling out someone personally like that was going to result in Bettman doing anything but pushing back hard... they haven't paid attention the last couple of decades.
  11. It is kind of shocking that they didn't see his value for the relatively minimal price he commanded. You could have almost certainly gotten him for even less to sign here by just giving him a 3 year term and him getting to play in his hometown. $1.5x3 would have gotten it done one would think. That is a really good price for a 3rd pairing guy who can SUCCESSFULLY play higher up when injuries happen. A 3rd pairing of Edler-Stecher is pretty darn solid to trot out... and assuming Edler would sign for $3 million or so going forward, it would also be pretty cheap. I can see Tanev and Markstrom priced out of the market for our situation and what they needed in their careers, but Toffoli and Stecher were unforgivable losses for no good reason. That isn't hindsight... I said that before last offseason.
  12. It is good to look at it that way, I don't know the particulars of all the teams and what major pieces they need to lock up in that timeframe and that is probably themost important consideration. If you take out about $21 million conservatively for Petterson, Hughes, and Boeser from that $46 million available... you get $25 million with 11 players signed (including Ferland), so about $2 million per player average for the rest of the roster. Accounted for in those committed salaries we would have: Miller-Petterson-Boeser Pearson-Horvat-Hoglander Ferland-XX-XX XX-XX-XX XX Hughes-XX Schmidt-Myers XX-XX Demko XX $25 million isn't a lot to fill out that roster, and you can't spend a lot of that anyways as you need to re-sign Hoglander, Horvat, and Miller the next year... and then likely Petterson and Hughes coming off their bridge contracts the year after.
  13. No one said it was. When at least half your roster is filled with guys that no other team would take on waivers... that IS a big problem however. That is where this team is at. Even when we manage to get rid of some bad contracts, we have no realistic path to replace that dead weight with anything but more dead weight. We won't actually have much cap space, we will be signing Petterson and Hughes to bridge deals so they will come up for renewal in 2-3 years. In 2022 and 2023 we have Boeser due a big raise, we have to re-sign Horvat and Miller, we have to re-sign Hoglander who will be coming off his ELC. We are then right back into extending Petterson and Hughes off their bridge deals. The little money we do have somehow has to find us a couple more top 6 forwards, a couple of top 4 D... and a bunch of bottom of the roster guys that can actually contribute instead of being dead weight. There really isn't much help coming from the farm. Podkolzin and Rathbone will graduate to the big club... and then it is pretty much a wasteland of prospects. Literally no one else who you can say has a really good chance of becoming a meaningful NHLer... lots of "maybe's" and guys who might be replacement level or worse players.
  14. We have a lot of players who play like number two already.
  15. 6th worst winning %.... getting close!
  16. It sounds like you are mistaking what happened. The owner put out the statement, not the fired GM and President.
  17. This is the part almost everyone is ignoring. They are just looking at se bad contracts coming off the books and figuring all will be well. How do we get better even with that small amount of cap space we will have? (Keeping in mind we will have a bunch of expensive re-signings coming up in successive years after that). To get UFAs as a bad team, you have to overpay. If you are a consistently bad team like us, what veteran wants to come here... never mind at a reasonable contract. If you want to make trades for good established players you need picks and prospects... if you want to get blue chip up and coming players, you have to actually trade away established veterans. We haven’t done any of that and don’t have any spare assets like that to trade. The time to move was last offseason. There was really good buzz all around the league from our bubble play. We should have paid assets to free cap space and used that space to get better and not take a step back. Players would have waived NTC to come to a team on the rise or UFAs looking for a winning situation would have signed. Geez how much better does the team look just by having traded Virtanen and a small cap dump like Baertschi for anything and then having signed Toffoli with that money? Never mind the opportunities to be had if we had cap space at the time. We are no longer considered a team on the rise by other players, so there is mo cavalry coming. After Podkolzin and Rathbone graduate to the NHL, we have a desperately thin prospect pool again with no more real difference makers in the system.
  18. I disagree with the OP. Benning should be fired now and replaced...not in the offseason. Let the new guy plan for the expansion and entry drafts.
  19. You are arguing two different and mutually exclusive things at the same time. If your issue is Parros being qualified and needing to be fired, the Rangers owner did the absolute wrong thing. Bettman could have literally been driving to the office with the intention of firing Parros, but once that statement came out, it guaranteed job security for Parros. For just reasons of optics, Bettman can’t fire him at the urging of one angry team owner and at the same time show that making public statements embarrassing the league is going to be behaviour that is rewarded. If you think the owner needed to make a public statement showing he supports players... then a prepared media statement aimed mainly at the league and not Wilson was also not very effective. He should have gotten in front of a camera and gone on full tilt. Also, go look at people that have been in charge of DoPS... they have pretty much all been guys who played on the wrong side of the rules.
  20. Yep, when you join the grown up table you learn how to do things effectively rather than throwing a tantrum. By calling publicly for Parros to be fired, they ensured that the league couldn’t actually fire him. They can’t be seen to be bowing to pressure from one owner. If you want to have a public snit to show your players you care... you do a media availability where you get led into saying it was BS. Burke was good at knowing when to put the heat on himself... he didn’t go around putting out media releases calling for people to be fired. Totally ineffective and it results in the league seeing your organization as hostile... which will cost you down the road.
  21. Please let this news be followed up with an announcement firing Benning and Weisbrod as a message we want to actually go after some guys like this who will be available. For those saying you want brass who will stand up to the league... the first thing is that the statement made by the owner isn't how you do that, because it has the opposite effect if you really wanted Parros fired. Now Bettman and company would absolutely dig in their heels so they aren't seen as caving to one upset owner. If you want to register your anger, pick up the phone and put Bettman on blast in private. The second thing is, pick your battles. There will be things more important to your team to hold your ground on than seeing if a player from another team gets suspended or not.
  22. There may be a limit to my fandom... I am not saying this is it... but it might be edging up there.
  23. Our team is bad “on paper” when half of them were already on waivers or could be put on waivers without getting picked up. Players that would have trade value (eg. that anyone would want at their contract value): Petterson, Horvat, Boeser, Miller, Hoglander, Hughes, Demko Players that “might” get something on return but nothing significant: Motte, Schmidt, Pearson, Juolevi, Myers, Holtby Players that probably don’t get picked up on waivers if we tried to dump them: Sutter, Roussel, Beagle, Ferland, Vesey, Boyd, Highmore, Chatfield, Brisebois, Hawyrluk, Virtanen, Michaelis, Graovac, Bailey, Eriksson, Baertschi That doesn’t look very good “on paper” to me. First the GM needs to be fired, and then the new one can decide on what coaching staff he needs. Really to me, I honestly don’t care if they trade away most of the team and start over with the good young pieces. Horvat, Petterson, Hughes, and Demko are the only untouchables for me.... Hoglander, Podkolzin, and Rathbone nearly untouchable since we likely couldn’t get a return that would equal their value to us on cheap contracts. If you could get a decent return of picks and blue chip prospects and dump some cap for Miller and Boeser I would even do that. They could be replaced in the short term by taking on contracts from cap strapped teams, and long term by the accrued young assets. People are overestimating some magical turnaround when we get some bad contracts off the books. How exactly does that happen? We need to find the “better” replacement players from somewhere and our prospect pool isn’t good, and will be downright terrible once Podkolzin and Rathbone graduate onto the team. We would have to go to the UFA market again and overpay for players because our team will be bad and not an attractive destination.... restarting the whole process of having overpaid/underperforming veterans wasting cap dollars.
  24. Lose for Hughes! Cower for Power Park for Clarke
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